Clear Water Bay Peninula (清水灣半島)

The Clear Water Bay Peninsula must be one of the most beautiful places in Hong Kong. When the weather is good, it'll be unforgivable if we don't spend some time there. It's quite accessible even by public transport. One takes the MTR and get off at Diamond Hill and then take the No. 91 bus and go right to the terminus, then walk about 5 to 10 minutes to the starting point of the path which leads uphill and just follow the trail until one reaches the middle of the footpath leading to the Tin Hau Temple (the "Big Temple) just another 10 minutes walk away, quite close to the entrance to the Clear Water Bay Country Club. This is exactly what I did.

Not more than 10 minutes up the path, and we can already have a beautiful view of the sea.

This is what you can see a little further down the same path: the two beaches separated by a headland: Silver Strand Beach (銀線灣 ) or Little Clear Water Bay (小清水灣) and Clear Water Bay(大清水灣) or Tai O Mun (大門) or literally the "Big Col Gate".

 

It's the Clear Water Bay right in the middle cordoned off with floating buoys

In the distance are two small bust-like hillocks

The easy trail leading downhill

In the distance, we see the golf course of the Clear Water Bay Country Club

This is the famous Po Toi O (Cloth Sack Bay) with the motor road trailing the coast.

A closer view of the same bay

The sea is glittering with sun light in the light haze

The pier in the middle is the pier serving the Tin Hau Temple or Tai Miu ("the Big Temple").  

A sea of silver

Getting closer to Po Toi O with its fish rearing rafts.

Getting even closer

Nam She Tsim (Tip of the Big Serpent) seen from the cove at Po Toi O.

On the way, one finds many leaves turning red

 Another one

 

The wild camellia are in full bloom

A peony blooming in Po Toi O

A tiny climber

Some road side daisy

Fallen leaves

huge crayfish shrimp from Vietnam about 6 to 8 inches long at a restaurant at Po Toi O: really delicious!

 Fried cuttlefish tentacles

The sea just outside my dining table

The top of a net for holding fish caught before they are taken up  to the fish tanks at the local seafood restaurants

More reflections

A towel in the afternoon sun outside one of the local residences

paint peeling off a pipe

Beautiful wooden whorls from an old plank

An accidental effect on the floor outside the local temple

Good luck ribbons hung on a Wishing Tree at the local temple 

Two gods at the local shrine

A huge smoking joss stick ring outside the local temple

Offerings to the local deities. Looks as if they are all vegetarians!